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Find out more at ThoughtWorks.com slash Looking Glass. Here Here's your midday brief for Friday, February 13th. I'm Pierre Biennames for the Wall Street

Journal. Inflation slowed to 2.4% in January, falling more than economists expected. The Labor

Department said prices fell for gasoline and used vehicles,

but costs for services rose at their fastest monthly clip in a year. Prices overall are growing more

slowly, a good signal for the economy, along with a better-than-expected jobs report earlier this week.

The reports taken together suggest that the Federal Reserve will stick with

its weight and see approach to cutting interest rates. In Dubai, the CEO of ports operator DP World,

who was named in the Epstein files, has resigned. The Justice Department files and other recent

public disclosures showed Jeffrey Epstein and Sultan Ahmed bin

Sulayem exchanged friendly emails for years, including discussing women in crude terms.

Photos showed that Bin Sulayem visited Epstein's island.

Bin Sulayem couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

And we exclusively report that Anthropic has added former Microsoft

and General Motors executive Chris Liddell to its board of directors, as the AI startup considers

an IPO. As chief financial officer at GM, Liddell led the carmaker's successful $23 billion

IPO in 2010. He also served in President Trump's first administration.

Anthropic yesterday said it had closed a $30 billion funding round that valued the company at $380 billion.

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